For those curious what the latest and greatest estimate of the Spanish bank bailout, which at last count was €100 billion and growing fast, would look like in US terms, here is a rough and dirty comparison of the scale we are taking about here...
- Spanish GDP of $1.25 Trillion : US GDP of $15.5 Trillion :: Spanish Bank Bailout of $125 Billion : US Bank Bailout of $1.6 TRILLION
A trillion here... a trillion there...
Or visually:
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